Chicago is a pretty good town.
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
A lot of pitchers today are afraid of the ball. Warren Spahn pinch-hit for me when I was a rookie. He hit a sacrifice fly. I couldn't argue. I was 20 years old and just happy to be in the big leagues. And Spahnnie was a good hitter.
I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know
When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.
When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.
Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.
I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.
I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.
In baseball, you're always moving people around.
Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.
If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.
It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.
I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.
You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
St. Louis has always been special to me.
People are proud of their players.
